Baseball Drops Third Game Of Series To Georgia, 7-2

Mar 08, 2009

ATHENS,
Ga.  The Quinnipiac University baseball team lost to Georgia,
7-2, in a game played at Foley Field in Athens, Ga. The nationally
ranked No. 2 Bulldogs took all three games of the series to improve
to 12-0 on the season while Quinnipiac opens their 2009 campaign at
0-6.

In
the 2nd inning, Mike Marmo (Brookville, N.Y.) led off
the inning with a single to left field. Senior Bryn Doyle
(Manchester, N.H.) followed with a two-run homerun to put the
Bobcats out in front 2-0. The lead was the first of the three-game
series against the Bulldogs and stood until the bottom of the
4th inning. Doyle and Marmo would provide the only
offense on the afternoon for the Bobcats. Doyle was 1-for-3 while
Marmo was 2-for-4 .

Georgia
pushed a run across in the 3rd and the 4th
innings to tie the game at 2-2. In the 3rd, Michael
Demperio doubled with one out to right field and scored on a single
to right by Rich Pothyress. In the 4th, Joey Lewis led
off the inning with a solo homerun to tie the game.

In
the 5th, Demperio, Colby May and Pothyress strung
together consecutive hits as Demperio crossed the plate on May's
single. After Lewis walked to load the bases, Chase Davidson
reached on a fielder's choice to score May. Miles Starr's single
scored Pothyress to cap the Bulldogs' scoring for the
day.

Bobcats'
starter Mike Oskandy (Bethel, Conn.) threw six innings, allowing
seven runs on 11 hits while striking out five. Freshman Anthony
Cinelli (Wall, N.J.) throw the final two innings, holding the
Georgia hitless over the stretch. Cinelli pitched efficiently,
inducing six ground balls to close out the game.

Quinnipiac
will head to Charleston, S.C. on Monday, March 9 to take on
the Citadel in a non-conference match-up at 6 p.m.